Research Data Analysis: Academic Research and Collaboration Activities in Bangladesh

The development of a country depends vastly on how its education and academic research enrich an educational system. So, it's a necessity to know the research condition of a country. Our work aims for knowing the status of academic research activities in Bangladesh which involves extracting knowledge by operating on the collected data, which relates it to data science, a field of extracting knowledge and insights from many structured and unstructured data. We have considered Google Scholar and ResearchGate, two giant bibliographic sites as our sources of data to find the top people in Bangladesh being highly cited, top research areas, and top universities in Bangladesh based on citations, etc., and show the result with graphical representations as well. This work also explores the collaboration network of academics by mapping a network graph, with authors as nodes and connections between them as edges. It helps to visualize the collaboration of researchers in Bangladesh with internal and external connections.